Eighteen Challenges in Contemporary Literature

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2. Daily communication means - mobile phone, social network, streaming video - enter the area where printed text can not follow

6. The central population of print media is aging faster than the general population. Printing and newspaper failures are branches of young apprentices writers

7. The business model of the media group is not good; economically streamlined "cultural industry" is actively hostile to important aspects of human culture.

Long tail tilts the audience, destroys the means to build norms and destroys literary reputation.

9. The digital public domain transforms the traditional literary heritage into a vast, free, portable, searchable database, thereby fundamentally changing the relationship between the reader and belle-lettres.

10. Contemporary literature is not faced with imminent problems; dominant bestseller is a former niche type like such fantasy, romance and teen books

11. Barriers to publications The barriers to collapse have made it possible to express large amounts of literary and / or non-literary texts.

12. Algorithm and social media replace the work of editor and publisher; web generated text replaces text written by individual

13. "Convergence Culture" erases the difference between media, the book is a secondary aspect of giant tweeting / blog / comic / games / track / TV / movie / supplementary product fan concessions

14. The unstable computer and mobile phone interface is the main cultural access means of the world. The Compositor system reproduces the media using its own hybrid Creole image

15. Scholars become embarrassed in these fields, become mutually related know-how virtual intellectuals

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